The first of two lectures examining opening up financial data. The financial sector is a notoriously closed and opaque system, with barriers to entry at many different levels. What elements, technologies and players are required to open it up, and what w

What if we could play back all the CCTV ever recorded of us? Film maker Manu Luksch did just that with her sci-fi fairy tale film ‘FACELESS.' Our lives are being captured in a multitude of ways: across social media, mobile and telephone communications,

A lunchtime lecture delivered by Ben Worthy, lecturer in politics at Birbeck college, on the 20/09/2013. Since 2010 local authorities have been required to publish their spending data across England. The promise - that this would create greater accountab

With the development of new hardware devices, personal health apps and the ability to process large amounts of data sets, we now have unprecedented means to improve and personalise health care for all. Yet such a proliferation of data, across many provid

A lunchtime lecture delivered by Jenni Allen of @WhichUK, on the 19/07/2013. What to study, where to go, and how to get there? It's an expensive decision and each year prospective undergraduate students have to decide with little objective information.

A Friday lunchtime lecture, delivered on the 12/07/2013, by the ODI's very own James Smith & Sam Pikesley. At the Open Data Institute, we build all our technology in the open. This may seem terrifying, but it's probably one of the most powerful things we

Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute 5 July, 2013 In the age of machine readable data a kind of omniscience is possible for the first time in history. We can know all things at all times and this knowledge is even being used to make predi

Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute 28 June, 2013 Finnish democracy activist Aleksi Rossi discusses the big ambition and practical challenge of creating Open Ministry, an online tool for crowdsourced legislation and participative democra

Friday Lunchtime Lectures at the Open Data Institute 21 June 2013 Thousands of people worldwide devote their lives to the somewhat obscure cause of 'open government', but so far they remain in the 'geek box', unable to break out into the mainstream and

Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute, 14 June 2013 Is being transparent something for business to fear or something to relish? CEO of CarbonCulture, Luke Nicholson, will take you through the commercial and political advantages brands and